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The Yezidis, terrorized and outcast

Along with Christians and other non-Sunni Muslims, Yezidis are little tolerated by the hardline Sunni Muslims from Islamic State. Large numbers of the Yezidi community, believed to number 500,000 in Iraq, have been killed in recent months, according to reports.
I have just returned from an assessment mission to northern Iraq, and here we met many of the displaced Yezidis now living in the open, along roadsides, in unfinished buildings and public spaces.